Managed to death: How Canada turned its forests into a carbon bomb
Since 2001, Canada's national forests have emitted more carbon dioxide than they have absorbed.
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Since 2001, Canada's national forests have emitted more carbon dioxide than they have absorbed.
Canada is known for its cold winters, but thanks to climate change, extreme heat is increasingly becoming a matter of life and death.
If the entire supply of new central air conditioners was replaced with heat pumps starting in 2025, it would mean cumulative energy bill savings of $10.4 billion across Canada by 2035.
Why Canada is opting to hold off and align home appliance energy standards with the U.S.
Unrelenting logging and fossil fuel burning have flipped one of the planet's largest forests from a critical CO2 sink into a surging CO2 source. This year's climate-fuelled wildfires are the latest acceleration in a multi-decade trend, writes Barry Saxifrage.